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Title:

Clinical Adoption of Contactless sensors for COVID patients

Agreement Number:

983409

Agreement Value:

$60,897.00

Agreement Date:

Nov 23, 2021 - Mar 31, 2022

Description:

Contactless technologies can complement and support clinical diagnosis and decision making during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Patients can conveniently remain in a safe distance while frontline healthcare staff remotely monitor, assess and triage them. This can reduce the risk of infection transmission to healthcare staff as well as the need for unnecessary emergency department visits. Beyond COVID-19 pandemic, contactless technologies are required as Canadians age and become more likely to need access to healthcare, a low cost, efficient and convenient method of continuously monitoring these physiological parameters, applicable to both in-hospital and at-home settings. The proposed project is conceptualized as a collaboration with NRC in Digitally-Augmented Contactless Diagnostics. The present system permits the acquisition and extraction of physiological signals such as for example, blood volume pulse (BVP)) from patients using contactless methods, as well as methodologies, that determine various physiological parameters including, but not limited to, heart rate, oxygen saturation (SpO2), respiration rate, and temperature. The Digital Emergency Medicine (DigEM) team at UBC, led by Dr Kendall Ho, will provide clinical input into the applications of the Contactless Sensing System in several perspectives including clinical assessment and analysis, system validation, usability and feasibility testing.

Organization:

National Research Council Canada

Expected Results:

In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.

Location:

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V6T 1Z3

Reference Number:

172-2021-2022-Q3-983409

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

108161779

Recipient Type:

Academia

Recipient's Legal Name:

The University of British Columbia

Federal Riding Name:

Vancouver Quadra

Federal Riding Number:

59039

Program:

Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives

Program Purpose:

Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.

NAICS Code:

541710